Good Sense Quotes

Though I often run out of courage and good sense, stubbornness keeps me going.

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

To give requires good sense.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense--have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

I just like boys who are good-looking, really! I like people who are tall with a good sense of style. My faves are the indie look, the smart look or the surfer look.

There's a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.

Be sober, and to doubt prepense, These are the sinews of good sense.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.